Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail and bus service is shut down Monday as more than 1,500 front line employees have gone on strike.

VTA’s final contract offer to workers last week included a wage increase of 9% over three years, keeping the employees as the second-highest paid in the Bay Area and the fifth-highest paid in the country. VTA is also asking the union to allow the long-term leave to be decreased from two years to one year, and to change the structure of holiday pay.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has filed a legal complaint over the ongoing VTA workers' strike as the labor action entered its second day in the South Bay.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has filed a legal complaint against the union representing transit workers who are picketing, seeking to end the strike.